Two women purchase hallucinogenic pills from two men on a street and go to an apartment where they swallow pills and drink liquor from vodka bottles while one woman sings (we do not see any hallucinations, but a dream sequence shows two women in formal attire pretend-fencing with umbrellas.)
A doctor tells a patient that she will begin a systematic program to reduce her medication intake.
Several scenes show a woman counting pills and swallowing one before returning the remainder to the bottle.
A pharmacy includes one full wall of bottles on the sales floor.
Men and women drink alcoholic drinks in short and tall plastic glasses in a club.
Tables contain dozens of glasses of beer and dark ale as well as wine in club and café scenes (no one is shown drinking.)
A man and a woman drink alcohol from a flask in a park.
Three men on the shore of a narrow river drink from tall beer cans.
Two women and a man purchase a bottle of white wine (no one drinks.)
A woman says that she drank too much wine and feels like "Tom Sawyer when he was drunk."
A man smokes a cigarette in a dance hall.